The Secretary of Economy, Graciela Marquez, He affirmed this Saturday that there are already almost 6 billion pesos deposited with family businesses as part of the loans to the floor, which have been dispersed from May 4 to 16.
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To date, five thousand 969 million pesos have been allocated, he specified at a press conference in the Treasury Room at the National Palace. “It is a considerable amount six billion, but we want to reach 25 billion in this program,” he said.
He also stressed that the million family businesses that will be able to access credit to the floor have already been identified.
“Today, Saturday, there are more than 230,000 loans scattered, and the resources will be used by employers to pay salaries, pay expenses such as rent or the purchase of raw materials, etc.”
Meanwhile, the general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Zoé Robledo, stated that as of May 15 they had the highest level of records for solidarity credit, with 31,402 businessmen, for which they added 191,981 applications. approved.
“We are very pleased that in just 22 days after the platform was opened we managed to reach this number of people, who represent 31 per story of the total universe that we intended to reach,” he said.
He recalled that the universe of entrepreneurs who could access this type of financing is 645 thousand who did not terminate any worker from January to March. These are entrepreneurs who have between one and 10 workers.
“More than 900,000 people tried to obtain it, but many did not meet the criteria, either because they were not employers affiliated with the IMSS or because they had terminated a worker.”
He stressed that the employers who will receive the credit rescued one million 636 thousand 788 workers, on whom their relatives depend, who number two million 708 thousand 140 people who are also affiliated with the IMSS.
He specified that of the 191 thousand credits approved, 180,811 were for microcredits.
On the solidary credit to domestic workers, he explained that they are part of a universe of 22,300 people and on the credit to independent workers of the voluntary social security system, they contemplate 23,717. which is almost seven times the universe, “he said.
“We have 1,881 between domestic workers and freelancers who have already given us their details and to whom we will begin to deposit them,” he added.
